In search for an old Kraftwerk Reason Refill I´ve lost…
… I came across this intriguing and inspiring site.
Some years ago I had quite a nice Kraftwerk refill that I lost in transfer between laptops 
and searching through the old sources I soon realized that refill was nowhere to be found, but to my great surpirise I came acroos the original author again and actually managed to download some of those refills again and being such a nice person I of course would like to share it with all of you guys 
Take a look at this Kraftwerk/Apple/Widgets/VST multimedia artist and enjoy…
Depeche Mode – back in the studio
The band met earlier this month, and agreed to hit the studio in March.
Martin’s been writing songs, and has already taken his new compositions into pre-production (ie. not just demos), working with Sie Medway-Smith in Martin’s home studio in Santa Barbara.
Dave has also been writing, although details of his progress are scarce.
EMI in Spain let slip that Mute are hoping to have the album ready at the end of this fiscal year, in time for Christmas. A tentative date of “late November” was circulated to retailers and media in Spain, via the IFPI owned operation Promusicae. Sources close to the band tells us to expect a tour to be announced some time in the early fall of 2008, with tickets going on sale in September or October. A tour would probably not start till early 2009, however.
80's nostalgia…
…remeber these old chaps
Yes it’s Freur, performing Doot Doot LOL
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opaeNiiizxo]
This months VST – Memorymoon
MemoryMoon v1.3 VSTi-AMPLiFY
Memorymoon is inspired by the clic synthesizers. The
sound is powerful. It has 6 voicecards with 3 oscillators,
noise oscillator, amp and 2 filters. Settings above 5V in
the mixer introduces overdrive.
Features include: 6 voice unison. Osc sync. Many envelope
curves. Graphic envelopes. Arpeggiator and trancegate. Hold
function. LFO, Voice-LFO, and Delay-time can be synced to
host clock or to tapped tempo. You can tap tempo with a
sustainpedal or with a button.
There is “voice-card drift” settings for tune, amp, filter
cutoff and pulse width. So each voice-card can sound
slightly different. It is also possible to play soundfonts
and drum-loops in wav-format. This is intended for live
performance.
Here’s where you can download it >>
Rozzbox – monophoner Hybridsynthesizer
You just have to listen to this little machine.
Go to Rozzbox home page and click on the mp3 demos – it is so nice and retro.
Well what is it;
“Die “RozzBox” V2 ist ein monophoner Hybridsynthesizer mit beachtlichem Funktionsumfang. ”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO6pLpIAxnw]
Reason 4 special in Computer Music – free refill :-)
If you have seen it or bought it already don´t miss out on this limited edition from CM covering the gross part of Reason 4, good tutorials and quite a decent exclusive refill I msut say. There are some nice effects in the Loopmaster’s refill.
This is what CM writes on their cover issue:
Reason 4: The Unofficial Guide
The long-awaited follow-up to our sellout Expert Guide to Reason has hit the newsstands in the UK and Europe. It’s called Reason 4: The Unofficial Guide – here’s a look at what’s inside:
Step-by-step guides to using Reason 4’s brand new features. Learn how to improve your workflow with the completely revamped sequencer, make mighty sounds with Thor, create impressive musical riffs with RPG-8, and inject your tracks with groove with the ReGroove Mixer.
Studio Sessions projects take you step-by-step through the process of composing, mixing and remixing a complete track. Learn how to get quality results from your setup that’ll stand up to the best commercial tracks out there.
Masterclasses. Revisit some old favourites with this section of tutorials. Customise your setup with the Combinator, get down to some intricate drum programming with Dr.Rex, explore the many possibilities of CV routing, and get experimental making a granular synthesis patch. Also demonstrated is a pain-free procedure for incorporating vocals or other audio parts into your Reason compositions.
On the CD are two exclusive Reason 4 ReFills lovingly compiled by the sonic wizards at Loopmasters and TrackTeam Audio. More than 500 patches, samples, groove templates and Thor Combi’s are featured, covering a wide variety of uses and genres, from vocals, d’n’b, hip hop and dubstep to ethnic, house, jazz, trance and more.
REFX – Nexus
OH! Btw I did not write what’s stated below, hehe
NEXUS is a next generation rom synthesizer of highest quality that will make your dreams come true. Forget about the usual bread & butter ROM synthesizers whose sounds are boring, stale and lacking punch.
NEXUS explores new territory and delivers complex, ultra-fat and up-to-date soundstorms that could not sound any better from the most expensive and best hardware – all at the tip of your fingers.
NEXUS provides you with everything you need to create the new hit. Do you need the most powerful dance leadsounds to become famous in your club or a Gregorian choir to create the atmosphere of the next trance hit? Whatever you need, NEXUS will supply you with what you have always been longing for.
Features like the freely programable arpeggiator, the versatile trancegate or the factory-library optimized for the most popular genres make this the best ROM synthesizer on the market.
Even though the sound is first rate, your CPU is spared. You can expand NEXUS with new sounds by installing genre-specific expansion packs or customize the look of the GUI with our themed skins.
KORG lunchbox synth
For those of you who haven´t seen this already
Crammed a digital delay, spring reverb and function generator into a lunchbox. The fact that it says korg is sort of a synth geek joke. _ Big thanks go out to tonepad.com and generalguitargadgets.com for being such great resources for this beginner. All boards etched by me using press-n-peel blue and RadioShack etchant.
audio samples are here for all settings full and here for a little restraint
New release of Chipmusic from Kittenrock – free download
Good sounding chipmusic/video game music from Kittenrock
Btw this is good site for finding more of the same >>
Free downloads (Radiowaves is btw my favorite :-))
SILent REQuiem – Pokket Nastie
(zip file – right click save target as or whatever for mac users)
This month SILent REQuiem brings us 9 tracks of some of the most terrifying Game Boy techno out there.
Get ready to be scared!
Originally released January 2008
RADIO WAVES GOODBYE – LASER BEAM
(zip file – right click save target as or whatever for mac users)
Radio Waves Goodbye blasts us out with a heavy slice of Hi-NRG Game Boy techno.
Originally released December 2007
Plötslichmusik – a real electro/synthpop treat
Even though their lyrics are crap and perhaps would do a lot with a better mastering of their songs, the music really has that happy synthpop touch to it and I really enjoy listening to their analog sounds.
DATAMASKIN
